Frosty’s Winter Wonderland

<p>Happy birthday! The Advent Calendar House kicks off a countdown to Christmas in July by setting the table for Rankin/Bass’s eventual epic crossover, starting with “Frosty’s Winter Wonderland,” a snowy sequel from 1976 starring a strange, tall goblin claiming to be Andy Griffith.</p> <hr /> <p>On This Episode:</p> <ol> <li>Mike Westfall (<a href="https://twitter.com/fallwestmike">@fallwestmike</a>), kind of round and plump and built to my spouse’s specifications.</li> <li>Brandon Medley (<a href="https://twitter.com/brandmed">@brandmed</a>), a preacher I built out of snow so I can legally marry my imaginary friend, and co-host of the <a href="https://starweirdos.podbean.com">Star Weirdos</a> podcast.</li> </ol> <hr /> <p>Topics and Tangents:</p> <ol> <li>A brief guide to finding obsure things on Disney+, like “<a href="https://www.disneyplus.com/movies/melody-time/37ZsAjhITfuG">Melody Time</a>,” starring Dennis Day, (the voice of Parson Brown) as Johnny Appleseed.</li> <li>Barbara Jo Ewing voiced one of the kids in her only known credit, but somehow <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263942/">IMDb knows her height</a>.</li> <li>We do the math to figure out how far the wind carried a newspaper from Frosty’s hometown to the North Pole.</li> <li>Frosty beat “The Santa Clause 2” to the “gotta get a wife” plot point by more than 2 decades.</li> <li>Frosty’s “specifications” for his ideal woman are the same as Sir Mix-a-Lot’s.</li> <li>The disturbing suggestion that snow people are self-aware before coming to life and are stuck in a comatose state.</li> <li>Jack Frost’s “winter that almost didn’t end” foreshadowed the real-life <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_1977">Blizzard of 1977</a> by less than 2 weeks.</li> </ol> <hr /> <p>Previous Podcast Episodes Mentioned:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/frosty">Frosty the Snowman</a> (Season 1, Episode 1)</li> <li><a href="https://adventcalendar.house/episodes/first-easter-rabbit">The First Easter Rabbit</a> (Season